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It probably makes perfect sense but it’s all too technical for me. I was always under the impression that higher temps meant less oxygen but them graphs threw me. That’s why I wasn’t sure I was even reading them right as it didn’t make sense

Did you see the link Paul put on the wye thread? There’s graphs on there that as far as we can make out show there is more oxygen in the water the higher the temp got.

I used mine for about 14 years. Landed barbel to 12lb 8 and carp to 20lb 15. Only problem I had was after about 10 years the varnish started coming away around some of the rings but I just picked off the loose stuff and bodged a bit of varnish on myself. Edit; only just noticed you had the...

I thought it was eels that don’t like scopex

If my bivvy gets packed away wet I’ll get it out at home to dry out. If my brolly is soaking as I normally leave it in my car I’ll get it out when I get back to stop my car getting soaked. As for rods and reels I tend not to let my reel get covered in mud and not that bothered bout my rods...

50+ is some collection. I like to keep my old gear with the intention of using it again some day but never do.

Probably pushing 20 rods ranging from a pen rod through to 5 1/2lb tc spod rod. Still got a the first rod I ever had which is basically a 6 foot or so plastic telescopic thing. Was sweet for float fishing for tidlers but would be interesting to see how it would hold up to a fish of more than a...

Probably my John Wilson barbel quiver. Not a particularly expensive rod or even a great rod but it’s landed my pb barbel, carp, roach, bream and eel so I got a soft spot for it even though I don’t use it anymore.

I never suggested it as an excuse. It was an idea for something to be used all season. I’m pretty sure we’ve all caught barbel at some point that have taken a worrying amount of time to recover. My thinking was if there was something on the market that could help it would something worth...

i was thinking of something to use all season long to help speed up the recovery time not something to give people an excuse to head out in dangerous conditions

I can assure you my idea certainly didn’t involve keeping fish in a cradle.

Yeah I like your thinking. We got any engineering whizz kids on here that can design something? Obviously I’ll want 50% of the business for coming up with the idea.

The ideas in its infancy at the minute anyway lads. I’ll let you all invest once we reach a final design lol

Haha. You could have a guard on the blades kind of like a table top fan you’d have in your house. After I posted I was thinking a better option would be something more like a fish tank pump. Something that could suck air in as well as water and pump both out towards the fish

Iv just had a bit of an idea. I wonder if you could make a kind of small scale outboard motor type thing that you could put half into the water infront of a resting barbel. The blades spinning disturbing the water should put a bit of oxygen in the water plus it would create a bit of flow aiming...

Iv not been as much so far this season as I normally would. Partly down to fuel costs but the 3 times Iv been to middle Severn it’s been way too busy for my liking. Iv been doing nights on the lower on the weekends knowing I’m not likely to catch but Iv had the place to myself so that suits me...

Have you changed rods at all? Last closed season I got new rods and first few months of the season I lost so many fish to hook pulls. Could only put it down to the rods. I always used barbless hooks and rarely lost fish unless I got snapped before so I switched to micro barbed and not lost one...

I use the nash claws. Used to use the fox series 1b for years as they were cheap and did the job but had one straiten out on me on a hair rigged muscle and stopped using them. Was probably the most vicious take Iv ever had and was gutted when I lost the fish as recon it was a biggun

Landing mats get really hot in the sun as well. You need to wet them up if they’ve been sat in the sun before putting a fish on them. As for cradles I can’t stand them. Used to fish a carp lake that supplied them and nets for each angler. I just found them a nightmare to get the fish out the...

Suns come out now it’s about to set. Provided this crazy double rainbow though